{"id":352,"date":"2007-03-04T22:47:42","date_gmt":"2007-03-05T03:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=352"},"modified":"2007-03-04T22:47:42","modified_gmt":"2007-03-05T03:47:42","slug":"fad-gadget-under-the-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2007\/fad-gadget-under-the-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"Fad Gadget &#8212; Under the Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/fadgadgetundertheflag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-624\" title=\"Fad Gadget -- Under the Flag\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/fadgadgetundertheflag.jpg\" alt=\"Fad Gadget -- Under the Flag\" width=\"500\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> Fad Gadget<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> Under the Flag<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1982<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 12 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 5<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Mary<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> 1983 &#8211; Olsson&#8217;s in DC<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> Yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tracy says it&#8217;s all about emotional attachments, and I have &#8217;em to this LP. My logical grown-up self says, &#8220;This record screams early &#8217;80s pretentious goth rock&#8221;, but my inner teenager says &#8220;I remember when I was in art school, the 9:30 Club played &#8216;Collapsing New People&#8217; between band sets (a Fad Gadget song not on this LP), and I went to poetry readings.&#8221; Poetry readings? I must of had a lot of free time.<\/p>\n<p>The music consists of keyboards, some neat sound effects, a drum machine, and topped with arty lyrics in a Bauhaus vocal style. Like the kids say (said) on American Bandstand, &#8220;it&#8217;s got a good beat and it&#8217;s easy to dance to&#8221;, or at least to brood to.<\/p>\n<p>I bought this in Washington in early 1984 or late 1983 in that store on Dupont Circle, Olsson&#8217;s? I want to keep it. And why is it in the middle of The Fall records, and shouldn&#8217;t it be before Faith even? F-A-D. Oh Well. I also didn&#8217;t see the 12&#8243; of Collapsing&#8230; If I had to choose between the two, I&#8217;d keep the 12&#8243; over this. Oh, I&#8217;ll rate it a 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: Fad Gadget Title: Under the Flag Year: 1982 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 5 Owner: Mary Acquired: 1983 &#8211; Olsson&#8217;s in DC Keeper: Yes Tracy says it&#8217;s all about emotional attachments, and I have &#8217;em to this LP. My logical grown-up self says, &#8220;This record screams early &#8217;80s pretentious goth rock&#8221;, but my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[468,452,453],"tags":[506,673,713,749,46,861,905,1033],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-f","category-music","category-record-collection","tag-506","tag-fad-gadget","tag-gothic","tag-industrial","tag-music","tag-new-wave","tag-postpunk","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}